On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:52 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:11 PM Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 10:39 +1100, VJ Rada wrote: >> > It's already ILLEGAL to not pay it, and it certainly shouldn't be >> > made IMPOSSIBLE to bid more than you have, because you could gain >> > money later. >> >> In my opinion, bidding on an auction should actually require paying the >> Shinies, but you should get them back if you don't win. >> >> -- >> ais523 > > > Finally an excuse to suggest accounts (they're on the Massive Reform > Plan). An account would be a rule defined portion of an entities assets, > which may be spent only as authorized by the enacting rule. Here we could > either transfer the assets to a spesific account of Agora (to ensure that > they aren't spent) or to a special account of the player bidding. Actually, > we could do that with the items being auctioned too, which would simplify > things and ensure that they stay up for auction. You can think of accounts > being basically like Agoran institutions, except that the owner technically > still has ownership, just not the power to spend the asset. > > -Aris > >> That was horribly worded, but what do people think of my basic idea? -Aris
